AJASIRIAMALI AFRICA - 2

And Paul Francis Mongi
Meet accounting software - Minishop from Tanzania
Erica Mutta - Architect questioned "Minishop" inayopaa East Africa

Last week we speak of digital-architect of their movement, a sort of Ninye, Saheed Adepoju. This week we met a young entrepreneur from Tanzania, Eric Mutta, architect of software digital-called Minishop, who recently has won a grant of US $ 328,000, the race for SME Finance Innovation Challenge Fund, to zimwezeshe strengthen its software Minishop while trying finding more investors, enabling Minishop have a very common name.
Network HumanIPO met with the boy to talk about his life journey, his company and his victory where he is now officially recognized as a renowned entrepreneur.
HumanIPO: It has been nearly 18 years since the pokikita on ICT activities. Is this how is your journey?
Eric Mutta: It has been a journey with great excitement. Digital now has become bigger and stronger, and the revolution of ICT-movement from the streams, high-speed Internet and shipments, and companies like Google and Facebook have emerged as mushrooms and change the world, while also material-movement from the use of the money they have occurred. Phone types of iPhone have emerged. Changes are plentiful. Personally I may h a strengthening my skills in software development industry-digital (software) and its engineering, I have learned numerous things about entrepreneurship and have been able to develop a feature of the championship, where I know how to be a winner in new and emerging markets.
HumanIPO: I began Where?
Eric Mutta: My father bought me a digital peace with other children, so we can play digital games (video games) in 1995. At that time we were in Mwanza. When I was a boarding school Greensteds, Nakuru (Kenya), I had the opportunity to see the film "Hackers" and I love the concept of being able to lead the world digital systems in secret, without kujulikanaa. I am impressed me about ruling the world, so I started learning everything I could.
On the web "hackers" there was an announcement that if you want to join them you had to be a "programmer" So I started that trip in 1997, I was starting something called QBasic (writing language plug-digital for beginners at all). By 2000, I went to England, I was particularly impressed by the concept of creative writing software-digital, where writers-digital they entered the bank and steal money, or turn off all the lights in traffic and divert from that red to be green, as I drive car. Nikikuwa doing all this for 16 years now, I spent 13 hours a day.
HumanIPO: Tell us about your company's Problem Solved Limited
Eric Mutta: This is a creative and promotional programs-digital I yoiasisi April 25, 2008. It was established to provide solutions to complex queries using software-digital technology. In mid-2007 I got a job as a writer-digital on a TISCAN, which was doing the assessment for payment of taxes on products which have been poured back through the port of Dar es salaam, agents Customs were filled table Declaration of Customs, they bared all that was container port were quite invasive, which makes the system work TISCAN kufuanyia the table. It took a period of up to 2 days for a man to use the fetish priest of digital that existed, to open emails were zikitumwa TISCAN, with the tables filled, and publish tables that, then verify that everything was all right and give agents their numbers memory, pind where the process began. This led to overcrowding of containers at the port of Dar es Salaam, due to the delays. Administration TISCAN and want an answer to this problem which, until then, was likiwapiga away, and it appeared to be an impossible feat to solve it.
Fortunately they found me at the office. My leader at the time he had gone on vacation for Christmas, and I stayed at the office because I had not worked long enough to qualify for the vacation time. After explaining the administration on the issue, I spent 12 days writing software that enabled small-digital carried out for a period of 30 seconds which are required to be fulfilled 3 and 48 hours. The problem already.
Results of these discoveries were such as electricity. The company's revenue yakapaa on up to $ 300,000 for the first month of using software-digital Therefore, due to the implementation of the process to enable containers from earlier that port, and a few weeks ago I decided to stop work and establish Problem Solved Limited to to be able to do a lot more for another company.
HumanIPO: Now that you have won the other major award, let's tell us about it.
Eric Mutta: First I won a prize of USD 15,000 from the Ministry of Foreign choruses of the United States (US Departmengt of State) on competition Apps4Afrika 2011 Climate Challenge. After investing the money to design software-digital Minishop (which is a software-digital accounting award winning), then I won the SME Finance Innovation Chakkenge Fund II, and was awarded with a grant of US $ 328,000, not long ago, on June 18, 2013.
HumanIPO: You have big plans for future?
Eric Mutta: Yes, I Minishop be on every shop on every street, in every city around the world. I want to build a company that will last win my grandchildren. I want to see that kind of engineering enables you to build productive business trillion as kwenhye maximum income market. Nakata possess the world.
HumnIPO: Do you give advice to others who kuwasimamaia began on entrepreneurship?
Eric Mutta: Not mentioned significantly as I want. Let me teach you because it helps me sharpen my awareness. We have one of the sectors with the excitement over the phone-movement from the continent, which has fierce competition and the development of products that provide numerous speed every time. I want this industry to be more open to supporting wabunidu third phase could focus on promote the various products. I want the owners of mobile-networking movement from being more open to developers of the third phase, especially in terms of financial uhaishaji via phone-vagrancy. I Tanzanian children have a greater understanding of the digital ranging from 10 years to life whether their ICT.